Year Of The Cock Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[C]All winter
the [F]magpies [G]hid in the steeple
Din[F]ing on [G]yarrow [C]an d boll weevil
And there were no [F]people [C]except [G]for me
I [F]came to the [G]sea to [C]write and to think
But [F]I was s[G]o small next[C] to my dreams
Like [F]a mind who might [G]try and [C]cross the seas
In the [F]year of the [G]cock[C]
[F][G][F][G][C]
Springtime [F]came, [C]no [G]words [D]on the page
[G]So the old[F] sperm wha[G]le
went [C]lookin' for prey
And when I found a [F]dodo as [G]hungry as me,
I [F]dragged her [G]back to my [C]lair by the sea.
Push[F]ing for[G]ward so [C]awkwardly,
I [F]laid [C]her [G]bare on the [C]eucalyptus
leaves in the [F]ear [C]of the [G]cock.
It was hard, hard as can [C]be
[F]So [G]I s[F]at [G]on [C]her mantel[F]
like an [G]old stuffed goose
The [F]artist who says [G]little landlifts [C]are just
And when at last I [F]tried to
fi[G]nally break loose
She [F]called me a [G]skunk,
a rac[C]coon on the loo
She [F]thought I was a [G]rooster
with the [C]right kind of plunge
But I [F]was only a [G]chicken
who had [C]gone coo -coo
I was [F]only a [G]chicken
We're gone, [C]cuckoo [F]now[G][F][G][C]
And just when I [F]knew
[C]I was m[G]eant to be alone
I [F]fell for [C]a c[G]all, so y[C]oung and so bold
Really, I [F]said you [C]could [G]love an old goat
[F]Sure, he said,
[G]but you're mor[C]e like a toad
Like [F]raging [G]rams we but[C]ted our horns
I was [F]a female [G]stag kicking [C]down the door
But [F]then like a [G]fishlet [C]back into the brook
In the [F]year of the [G]cock
I let him off the [C]hook[F][G][F][G][C]
And then mother died
[F]so I flew [G]back to the states
But my [F]sister was a shark
[G]so the lio[C]n's share was weasels away
And when I saw a [F]girl
I [C]once knew [G]living on the street
A [F]hard [C]yea[G]r went from bad[C] to bleak
My [F]skin broke [G]out like when [C]I was a kid
It was [F]back to the [G]clinic
for [C]tar baths and treatments
And the [F]doctors,
[G]they gave the [C]same old speeches
In the [F]year of the [G]cop[C][F][G][F][G]
[C]
And when at last [F]I made
[C]it back to the steeple
[D]The[G] mag[D]pie[F]s stared[G] at
[D]this strange [C]man [G]made
[C]But a [G]year of [F]lost an[C]d lost [G]questions
I guess [F]a broken [G]mind
[C]receives no lessons
[F]If in [G]fact I had [C]fallen and cracked
Would I [F]rise like a [G]phoenix from [C]the flames?
Or [F]was I just an [G]egg full of clay
[C]In the yea[F]r of the coc[G]k?
I crawled all night an[C]d all [F]day[G]
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